The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages

T OM got up hungry, and sauntered hungry away,
but with his thoughts busy with the shadowy
splendors of his night's dreams. He wandered
here and there in the city, hardly noticing where he
was going, or what was happening around him.
People jostled him and some gave him rough speech;
but it was all lost on the musing boy. By and by
he found himself at Temple Bar, the farthest from
home he had ever traveled in that direction. He
stopped and considered a moment, then fell into his
imaginings again, and passed on outside the walls
of London. The Strand had ceased to be a countryroad then, and regarded itself as a street, but by a
strained construction; for, though there was a tolerably compact row of houses on one side of it, there
were only some scattering great buildings on the
other, these being palaces of rich nobles, with ample
and beautiful grounds stretching to the river--
grounds that are now closely packed with grim acres
of brick and stone.

Tom discovered Charing Village presently, and
rested himself at the beautiful cross built there by a
bereaved king of earlier days; then idled down a
quiet, lovely road, past the great cardinal's stately

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Questia, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning. www.questia.comPublication information:
Book title: The Prince and the Pauper:A Tale for Young People of All Ages.
Contributors: Mark Twain - Author.
Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1921.
Page number: 10.

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